ignorance – now available in colour
| September 29, 2012
Month: September 2012
10 Interesting Star Trek Facts – You might not know.
| September 28, 2012
Police probing Quebec maple syrup heist worth up to $30-million
| September 28, 2012
Quebec police are on the hunt for a sticky-fingered thief after millions of dollars of maple syrup vanished from a Quebec warehouse.
The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check last week at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where the syrup is being held temporarily. The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, which is responsible for the global strategic maple syrup reserve, initially kept the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime quickly.
Obama riding a lion
| September 28, 2012
When the President talks about Change, he means it. First on the list is all presidential addresses being issued atop his mighty lion while he wields his crossbow and DARPA issued Light Saber.
Girl Catches Bubonic Plague From Squirrel
| September 27, 2012
A seven-year-old girl in Colorado is recovering from bubonic plague, the illness that caused the Black Death and wiped out up to 60% of Europe’s population in the 14th century.
Sierra Jane Downing became ill after trying to bury a dead squirrel while on a camping trip with her family in Colorado.
20 Things You Didn’t Know About…Television
| September 27, 2012
1 Fade to black: On February 17, television stations will broadcast only digital signals, ending the run of the TV system used in the United States for the past 55 years.
2 The digital television signal can transmit pictures composed of up to 1,080 lines. That’s a long way from the first TV, demonstrated by John Logie Baird in 1926. It used just 30 lines to create a coarse image.
3 Baird’s television looked like a peep-show device, held together with scrap wood, darning needles, string, and sealing wax. His invention was partly mechanical, relying on a spinning metal disk with a spiral of holes to chop up images for transmission.
4 Two years later, Baird demonstrated color television, but black-and-white TV ruled for decades. People who watched such television as kids are more likely to dream in black and white than those who grew up with color TV.
5 Yes, it existed before Monty Python. On August 22, 1932, the BBC began regular broadcasts using the Baird system.
6 By 1935 there were some 2,000 Baird TVs in use. They cost £26 each—the equivalent of $7,700 today.
7 The largest plasma TV now available, a 103-inch monster made by Panasonic, will set you back $70,000.
8 Are television execs playing with hellfire? The inventor of all-electronic TV, Philo T. Farnsworth, called television a gift from the Lord and warned that “God will hold accountable those who utilize this divine instrument.”
9 By the age of 14, the average American child has seen 11,000 murders on TV.
10 The first television advertisement, broadcast in New York on July 1, 1941, was a 20-second Bulova Watch spot that aired before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The cost for the air buy was $9.
